Court Upholds Tax Evasion Penalty for Incomplete E-Way Bill, Citing Unjustified Absence of Invoice and E-Way Bill.

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....Penalty u/s 129(1)(b) - Part-B of the e-way bill was not filled up - The High Court held that, upon a perusal of the order in appeal, it is crystal clear that the petitioner could not justify the reasons for non production of the invoice and the e-way bill. In such cases, a presumption automatically arises that there was an intention to evade tax. This presumption would be rebuttable. However, the petitioner was not able to bring any evidence to rebut the said presumption of evasion of tax.....